Categories : Academic items

 1. Architecture of Coexistence: Building Pluralism

Edited by Azra Akšamija

Published by ArchiTangle Berlin, 2020

Preview: https://architangle.com/book/architecture-of-coexistence

 

 

 

 

2. HIAA Members – Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize and the Grabar Post-doctoral Fellowship

The Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize in Islamic Art and Culture
Deadline: November 15, 2020

Every year the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA) sponsors a competition and awards the Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize for the best unpublished essay written by a junior scholar (pre-dissertation graduate student to three years after the Ph.D. degree) on any aspect of Islamic visual culture. This competition is open to HIAA members only. The Ševčenko Prize recipient receives an award of $500 and a citation, generally presented at HIAA’s annual business meeting. The Prize is named in memory of Margaret Bentley Ševčenko, the first and long-serving Managing Editor of Muqarnas, a journal devoted to the visual culture of the Islamic world and sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard and at MIT. The winning essay will be considered for publication by the Muqarnas Editorial Board.

Submissions must include the paper in both Word and PDF format, and a separate sheet with the author’s contact information (address, telephone number, and email address). Papers should not exceed 10,000 words in length (including footnotes) and can be accompanied by up to 15 low-res illustrations.
Please note that submissions cannot be in press or under review with any publisher.

A letter of recommendation for the paper should be sent separately by the author’s adviser or referee.

All materials should be submitted by email to the Ševčenko committee chair, Hala Auji (sevcenko.hiaa@gmail.com) by November 15, 2020. Files exceeding 5 Mb should be transferred by FTP.

For further details, please visit: https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/opportunities/hiaa-prizes/the-margaret-ševčenko-prize-in-islamic-art-and-culture

 

 

Grabar Post-doctoral Fellowship
Deadline: November 15, 2020

The Grabar Post-doctoral Fellowship is intended to support post-doctoral scholars at an early stage of their careers in advancing their research. Fellowship funds may be used in one of two ways:

 

* To spend up to two months in residence as a visiting professor or fellow/research scholar at a university, museum, research institute or similar institution outside their usual country of residence or employment.

 

* To support additional research to aid in preparing the dissertation for publication.

 

Applicants should have completed their PhD within the last five years or have submitted their dissertations by the start of the fellowship.

 

The Grabar Post-doctoral Fellowship will provide up to $2000 US per month, for a maximum of two months. An additional $1000 may be requested for travel or for supplies.

 

All materials should be submitted by email to the chair of the Grabar post-doctoral fellowship committee chair, Ruba Kana’an (grabar.hiaa@gmail.com) by November 15, 2020. Files exceeding 5 Mb should be transferred by FTP.

For further details and to apply, please visit: https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/opportunities/hiaa-prizes/grabar-grants-and-fellowships

 

 

 

 

3. An Introduction to Arabic Medical Tables by Dr Meekyung MacMardie 3rd Nov at Wellcome Collection

Our next Exploring Research Seminar on Tuesday 3 November will feature Dr Meekyung MacMurdie who will discuss ‘The Practice of Persuasion: an introduction to Arabic medical tables’.

Tabulated medical texts emerged in the Arabic-writing sphere during the eleventh century, inspired by and designed in the likeness of astronomical charts and astrological horoscopes. Tables streamlined extensive medical encyclopaedias into single volumes, meeting demands, so their authors claimed, for the benefits of science, not its proofs and definitions.

This talk examines the formal rhetoric of medical tables. In terms of production, their striking spatial layouts required special planning, attention, and skill on the part of scribes. Highlighting examples from the Wellcome Collection, the talk will explore historical processes of manuscript production in addition to the significance of table aesthetics: as the space where the invisible cosmos and visible world converged.

About your speaker
Meekyung MacMurdie

Meekyung is a newly minted PhD, having just completed her degree in art history at the University of Chicago. She specialises in medieval art of the Islamic world with particular interests in artistic practices of ornament and design, knowledge transmission and exchange, and the historiography of Islamic art. For her thesis, “Likeness, Figuration, Proof: geometry and the Arabic book,” she examined the evidentiary stakes and ontological status of tables, geometric figures, and pictorial images in scientific and medical manuscripts. She is currently a research fellow at the University of Bern, part of the ERC-funded project, “Global Horizons in Pre-Modern Art.”

This is an free online event. Virtual doors open at 17.15, seminar starts at 17.30 to 18.30 (London time). There will be an opportunity to ask questions after the talk.

To book your virtual seat, please visit https://wellcomecollection.org/events for details.

 

 

4.  Islamic Texts Society – Mawlid Discount 2020

Between 23rd October and 2nd November, in celebration of the Mawlid al-Nabi, the Islamic Texts Society will be offering its readers a 25% discount on all titles.*

Books from ITS are the perfect gift for family, friends and loved ones; beautifully designed and produced to the highest quality, ITS titles enable readers to gain access to treasures of classical Islamic thought and spirituality.

In order to take advantage of this offer, please visit our website by clicking on the button below and enter the coupon code, MAWLID20, on the purchase page.

(*Excluding Arabic-English Lexicon by E. W. Lane.)

 

 

 

 

5. Webinar Announcement – From Malabar to Coromandel: The Future of Deccan Heritage, Art and Culture

From Malabar to Coromandel: The Future of Deccan Heritage, Art and Culture. This is an international collaboration organized by the Deccan Heritage Foundation, the Centre of Islamic Studies at Cambridge, and the HH Sri Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar Foundation, Mysore.

 

https://www.deccanheritagefoundation.uk/events/webinars/about

 

NOVEMBER 2020

Pushkar Sohoni (IISER Pune) The Architecture of a Deccan Sultanate: Courtly Practice and Royal Authority in Late Medieval India
Discussants: Marika Sardar (Aga Khan Museum) and Vivek Gupta (University of Cambridge) on November 13th at 13.00 GMT (Book Discussion)

George Michell (Architectural Historian, DHF) ‘Art and Architecture of the Badami Chalukyas,’ on November 27th at 13.00 GMT

DECEMBER 2020

Richard M. Eaton (University of Arizona) India in the Persianate Age: 1000—1765
Discussants: Alka Patel (UC Irvine) and Roy Fischel (SOAS, University of London) on December 11th at 16.00 GMT (Book Discussion)

Annapurna Garimella (Art, Resources and Teaching Trust) ‘The Square and the Rectangle: Design Transformations and Architectural Renovation between the 14th-16th Centuries in Vijayanagara,’ on December 18th at 13.00 GMT

JANUARY 2021

Emma Flatt (UNC Chapel Hill) The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates: Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis
Discussants: Evrim Binbaş (University of Bonn) and Subah Dayal (NYU Gallatin) on January 8th at 13.00 GMT (Book Discussion)

Anna Lise Seastrand (University of Minnesota) ‘Image and Imagination: Wall Paintings in Early Modern Southern India,’ on January 22nd at 16.00 GMT

MARCH 2021

Evrim Binbaş (University of Bonn) ‘The Idea of Sacral Kingship between Islamic and Turco-Mongol Concepts of Politics,’ on March 5th at 13.00 GMT

To register for the webinar series, please fill out the form in https://www.deccanheritagefoundation.uk/events/webinars/registration.

If you have any queries, please write to deccanheritagefoundationindia@gmail.com.

 

 

 

6. Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World

Published in association with Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali, Founder and Chair, Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute

Studies of the political, economic, social and cultural history of medieval and modern Iran and the Persian world

Covering the history of Iran and the Persian world from the medieval period to the present, this series aims to become the pre-eminent place for publication in this field. As well as its core concern with Iran, it will extend its concerns to encompass a much wider and more loosely defined cultural and linguistic world, to include Afghanistan, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Xinjiang and northern India.

www.edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/EHSIPW

 

 

 

 

7. McGill’s Online Panel on Social and Pedagogical Aspects of Teaching Persian to Speakers of Other Languages

Friday, October 30 at 11:00-1:00 Eastern time.

This panel showcases six chapters from The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian.

To attend, please register by sending an email Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi ( pouneh.shabani-jadidi@mcgill.ca )

 

 

 

 

8. ONLINE Event: “Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum”, SOAS, University of London, 10-11 November 2020

This Music Forum will be of interest to a broad audience, including musicologists, ethnomusicologists and other researchers in the arts, humanities and social sciences. In addition, we welcome those working on other aspects of culture in this region (dance, visual arts, media, film, literature, etc.)

Information and registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/middle-east-central-asia-music-forum-soas-tickets-125682709367?aff=efbeventtix&fbclid=IwAR3NVKWOnQfBlKzwljdBvS8uH4AD8nX8iiqHY50kCXAhvi2XhPM01o9XVL4

 

 

 

 

9. ONLINE: International Conference on “10 Years On: The People & The Protests”, Project SEPAD, Lancaster University, UK, 17-18 December 2020

The conference on the 10^th anniversary of the beginning of the Arab Uprisings seeks to reflect on the ways in which the uprisings have affected people and political projects across MENA and invites papers reflecting on: Popular protests; relations between rulers and ruled; resistance; gender and sexuality; sovereign power; spatial ordering; clientelism; sectarianism; de-sectarianisation; political economy; power sharing; urban politics; environmentalism; foreign policy making; etc.

Information: https://www.sepad.org.uk/event/conference-and-call-for-papers

 

 

 

10. Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Cultural Studies, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

Candidates are invited to submit applications for a tenure-track position in Arabic language and cultural studies. Ph.D in Arabic Language and Literature, Middle Eastern Studies or a closely related field is required.

Deadline for applications: 1 November 2020. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/78584

 

 

 

 

11. ONLINE: Introduction of Two MA Programs in Islamic Studies, Columbia University, New York, 18 November 2020, 11 am EST

These programs delve into the religious and intellectual traditions of Islam and the diverse regional histories, cultures, and social formations of Muslim societies around the world. A virtual open house will be held on 18 November.

Information: https://www.mei.columbia.edu/ma-programs

 

1.Le Centre de recherche sur le monde Iranien (CeRMI) et la BULAC ont le plaisir de vous convier à découvrir l’exposition Gilbert Lazard, un siècle d’études iraniennes, présentée à la BULAC du 19 octobre au 27 novembre prochains.

En raison du contexte sanitaire, l’accès à l’exposition se fait sur réservation : pensez à réserver un créneau de visite sur le site de la BULAC.

 

Toutes les informations sur cette programmation se trouvent sur la page web de l’exposition.

 

N’hésitez pas à relayer l’événement au sein de votre réseau.

 

Bien cordialement,

 

Le CeRMI et l’équipe action culturelle de la BULAC

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CeRMI – CNRS UMR 8041
Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien
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27 rue Paul Bert – 94204 Ivry-sur-Seine – France
cermi@cnrs.fr  – https://www.cermi.cnrs.fr

 

 

 

 

2. Exploring Medieval India through Persian Sources

Ali Athar
National Mission for Manuscripts, 2020

https://www.bagchee.com/books/BB130210/exploring-medieval-india-through-persian-sources

 

 

 

3. Multidisciplinary workshop Steadfast Imagining: Lyric Meditation, Islamic Philosophy, and Comparative Religion in the Works of Bidel of Delhi (d.1720) organized and led by Domenico Ingenito (UCLA, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) and  Jane Mikkelson (University of Virginia) in cooperation with scholars working in Persian Studies, Islamic Studies, South Asian, Near Eastern, and Central Asian Studies, English, Anthropology, and Comparative Literature. All sessions will be held in English, and all reading materials (both primary and secondary sources) will be circulated and presented in English translation.

The workshop is sponsored and organized by UCLA Program on Central Asia (in collaboration with Iranian Studies), and co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Center for Near Eastern Studies.
The workshop includes five sessions which will convene bi-weekly on Fridays from 1 PM to 2:00 PM (Pacific Standard Time) via Zoom, with the first meeting on October 23rd and the concluding session on December 18th. To register and receive the Zoom information for the first session, please follow this link. Links for future sessions will be available soon.

 

 

 

 

4. ONLINE: 18^th Annual Islamicate Graduate Students Association Conference on “What Does Race Have to Do with Religion? Racialization and Worldwide Islam”, UNC-Duke, 20-21 February 2020

We are seeking submissions from fields inclusive of, but not limited to: Religious Studies, Political Science, Sociology, History, Art History, Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Philosophy, Asian Studies, African American Studies, Geography, Women and Gender Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, American Studies, and African Studies.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 November 2020. Information: https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/41830/Call-for-Papers-What-Does-Race-Have-to-Do-with-Religion-Racialization-and-Worldwide-Islam

 

 

 

 

5. PhD Position (4 Years) for Research on Muslim Interreligious Encounters in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean, University of Groningen

The PhD candidate is expected to have a thorough training in research skills, to be fluent in English (both oral and written) and be able to carry out research in one or more languages (such as Arabic and Spanish), etc.

Deadline for applications: 1 December 2020. Information: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S0007XJP&cat=phd

 

 

 

 

6. Assistant Professor for Late Antiquity and/or Early Islam, University of Toronto Scarborough

Applicants must have a Ph.D. in Classics, Middle East Studies, History, Religion, Art History, Archeology, or another, closely related discipline. They must demonstrate a record of excellence in research and teaching in the field of Late Antique studies and/or the study of early Islam both conceptually and methodologically.

Deadline for application: 30 November 2020. Information: https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Assistant-Professor-Late-Antiquity-andor-Early-Islam-ON/541785217/

 

 

 

 

7. Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Comparative Politics of the Middle East, University of Mississippi

The successful candidate will have a PhD, a research and teaching focus on the Middle East and be able to teach introductory and thematic courses in comparative politics. The candidate should have field experience and appropriate foreign language proficiency in Arabic, strong methods skills, and demonstrated excellence in teaching.

Deadline for applications: Until position is filled. Information: https://careers.olemiss.edu/job/University-Assistant-Professor-MS-38677/680641900/

 

 

 

 

8. 2021-22 Fellowships, Scholarships and Awards from the American Center for Research (ACOR), Jordan

ACOR promotes study, teaching, and increased knowledge of ancient and Middle Eastern studies with Jordan as a focus. We encourage you to share these opportunities widely with your networks.

Deadline for applications: 1 February 2021. Information: https://orcfellowships.smapply.org/

 

 

 

 

9. ONLINE Course on “Bridging the Great Divide: The Jewish-Muslim Encounter”, Woolf Institute, Cambridge, 11 January – 25 April 2021

Despite their closeness in belief and practice, today, Jewish-Muslim interactions are often the source of intense religious conflict. This course will explore the history, culture and theology of Muslims and Jews, reflecting both on similarities and differences as well as discussing the major challenges.

Deadline for application: 13 December 2020.

Information: https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/study/online-courses/bridging-the-great-divide-the-jewish-muslim-encounter

 

 

 

10. Articles for Edited Volume on “From the Postcolonial to the Decolonial: French and English Textbooks in North Africa and the Middle East“

After exploring the history of schooling in this region during the colonial period, this volume aims at answering the question what has happened after independence, when – under the pressure from the demands of populations long described as ‘indigenous’ – ‘decolonization’ became the watchword.

Deadline for expressions of interest: 31 October 2020. Information: Prof. Kamal Salhi, University of Leeds, K.salhi@leeds.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

11. New Research Platform and Online Journal: “Manazir – Swiss Platform for the Study of Visual Arts, Architecture and Heritage in the MENA Region”

Manazir is oriented towards a diversity of transcultural and transdisciplinary “landscapes” and “points of views” and open to a multiplicity of themes, epochs and geographical areas. The Platform disseminates information regarding conferences, workshops, publications and exhibitions. Research results are also promoted through Manazir Journal, a peer-reviewed online journal that regularly publishes thematic issues in platinum open access.

Information: https://www.manazir.art/

 

 

12. On-line sources :

 

MENALIB – Web Portal of the Specialized Information Service Middle East, North Africa and Islamic Studies

 

Uyghurkitap, an online digital collection of Uyghur documents, is now open to public.
The library contains 6,400 documents, including 500 manuscripts,  1,500 newspapers and magazines, and ~ 4,000 Uyghur language books.

http://www.uyghurkitap.com/

 

 

 

 

13. Early Modern Workshop

Friday, October 23 | 12-1:30pm  

presentation by

 

Amanda Phillips Assistant Professor, Art, University of Virginia

 

 “Beyond Text: What Objects Can Tell Us” 

 

Amanda will be speaking about her new book, Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean (University of California Press, 2021), which argues for the central role of textiles in daily life across the social and economic continuum. In this talk, Amanda will discuss how objects can, and do, tell stories not found in written sources.

 

Our events are free and open to the public.

Please register on the link below:

Zoom:  https://virginia.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtcu6gqz8oE9UIY2aCW_T37tQv0VJieo3V

 

The Early Modern Workshop is a multidisciplinary forum at the University of Virginia where scholars working on the early modern period (broadly defined) can discuss their work with colleagues across departments. The aim is to foster conversations that go beyond departmental, disciplinary, and regional parameters, and to create an active community of early modernists here at the University of Virginia. We will convene once a month on Fridays, 12-1:30pm, on Zoom. If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please contact us.

 

We have an exciting schedule this autumn: coming up, there will be a presentation by Nizar Hermes(Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures) on November 13 and a guest lecture by Russ Leo (English, Princeton) on December 4. 

 

 

 

14. Thinking with Wendy Shaw, What is ‘Islamic’ Art? (online, 12 Nov 2020)

| 15:00 – 17:00 (CET)

In this conversation, as part of the RCMC Thinking With series, Wendy M. K. Shaw discusses her work notably in her  book What is ‘Islamic’ Art: Between Religion and Perception (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Register here:

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_u2VQjNufT56ghsg3mAZvKw

https://www.materialculture.nl/en/events/thinking-wendy-shaw-what-islamic-art

 

Discussant | Pooyan Tamimi Arab

Pooyan Tamimi Arab is an assistant professor of religious studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University and a member of the Utrecht Young Academy. He is part of the research project “Religious Matters in an Entangled World” (www.religiousmatters.nl).

Discussant | Mirjam Shatanawi

Drs. Mirjam Shatanawi is lecturer at the Reinwardt Academy (Amsterdam University of the Arts). Between 2001 and 2018, she worked as curator at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam, the Museum of Ethnology in Leiden and the Wereldmuseum in Rotterdam. She is the author of Islam at the Tropenmuseum (2014). She has curated exhibitions on topics as wide-ranging as contemporary art from Iran, the global Sixties and the artistic encounter of the Dutch artist M.C. Escher with Islamic art.

 

 

 

15. Call for Papers: “Single-Slide Sohbat” Graduate workshop, January 2021

We are pleased to inform you of the first gathering of what we hope will be an annual event, the “Single-Slide Ṣoḥbat,” in January, 2021 (exact date still to be determined). Facilitated by students in the Yale History of Art department, this event is intended to bring together graduate students, at any level of their study, working on the art and architecture of the broadly-defined Islamic world. Thinking through the word ṣoḥbat, connoting companionship and conversation in several languages, we hope that this will be an opportunity for participants to learn about their colleagues’ research and to connect with each other in an informal and cordial setting.

For our initial meeting, we challenge speakers to use a single slide showcasing an object/site important to their research, and to keep presentations to ten minutes.In addition to being more suitable for the Zoom format, this will allow for a greater diversity of presentations, and foster new and interesting juxtapositions across spatial and temporal boundaries within this broadly-defined field.

We ask interested participants to submit, by October 30th, 2020, a working title and a maximum 250-word abstract by filling out this form: https://forms.gle/aqLgigAhHLtqG31A9

 

 

 

 

16. New Online Teaching Resource – The Aga Khan Museum Academic Resources

Following on our fellow HIAA members’ efforts to organize materials for online teaching, the Aga Khan Museum has created an Academic Resources page on its website. This page provides links to resources on the collection (3D tours of the galleries, collections search, short videos), special exhibitions (PDFs of catalogues, lists of relevant objects, online lectures), and other parts of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (including the Music Initiative and Award for Architecture).

We are also offering a ‘Book a Curator’ program, if you would like a member of the curatorial staff to visit your class for a virtual object handling session, to talk about issues of collecting and museum display, or speak to their areas of specialty within Islamic art.

 

 

 

17. The Yale Department of Comparative Literature presents:

Contemporary Iranian Poetry in Translation: A Reading and Conversation with Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould

Tuesday, November 11, 12-1:30pm EST

 

Please register in advance for the webinar here:

https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3QSJXjZYQJyCzxcvNSQDtg

After registration, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to join the webinar.

 

Join us for a discussion about modern Iranian poetry and translation with Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould, both scholars and practicing poets based at the University of Birmingham, who frequently collaborate on their translations of Persian poetry. They will read poetry by Tahmasebian, as well as their translations of verse by Bijan Elahi and Hasan Alizadeh. They will be joined in conversation by Sam Hodgkin and Robyn Creswell from Yale’s Department of Comparative Literature.

 

This event is co-sponsored at Yale by the Program on Iranian Studies; the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; the Council on Middle East Studies; and the Yale Translation Initiative.

 

Participant bios:

Kayvan Tahmasebian is an Iranian poet, translator, and critic who was born and raised in Isfahan. He is the author of Isfahan’s Mold (2016), on the short story writer Bahram Sadeqi, and Lecture on Fear and Other Poems (2019). Tahmasebian has also translated Beckett, Rimbaud, T. S. Eliot, Ponge, and Mallarmé into Persian. He is currently a Marie-Curie Fellow at the University of Birmingham, and Principal Investigator of Transmodern, a Horizon 2020-funded project on the position of translated literature within modern Iranian literary theory. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming in New Literary History, Modernism/Modernity, and Twentieth Century Literature.

 

Rebecca Ruth Gould’s translations include The Prose of the Mountains: Tales of the Caucasus (2015) and After and the Days Disappear: Ghazals and Other Poems Hasan Sijzi of Delhi (2016), and, with Kayvan Tahmasebian, High Tide of the Eyes: Poems by Bijan Elahi (2019). She teaches at the University of Birmingham and is the author of Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus (2016) and The Persian Prison Poem:  Sovereignty and the Political Imagination (2021).

 

Sam Hodgkin is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. His first book project is entitled “The Nightingales’ Congress: Literary Representatives in the Communist East.” He is currently preparing for publication translations of several 20th-century Central Asian and Iranian works of literature and criticism.

 

Robyn Creswell is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale and author of City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut (Princeton, 2019). He is the translator of Abdelfattah Kilito’s The Clash of Images (New Directions, 2010) and The Tongue of Adam (New Directions, 2016), as well as Sonallah Ibrahim’s That Smell and Notes from Prison (New Directions, 2013).

 

 

 

 

18. Online series – Crafting Conversations: Discourses on the Craft Heritage of the Islamic World, IAMCC, Toronto

“Crafting Conversations: Discourses on the Craft Heritage of the Islamic World – Past, Present and Future.”

Sessions will take place on Zoom (Toronto time, EDT), and you can register for FREE on the University of Toronto’s (Institute of Islamic Studies) Eventbrite page (all sessions will be uploaded shortly): https://www.eventbrite.ca/o/institute-of-islamic-studies-17708785802.

 

“Crafting Conversations: Discourses on the Craft Heritage of the Islamic World – Past, Present and Future” An Initiative of the Islamic Art and Material Culture Collaborative (IAMCC*), Toronto, Canada Hosted by Fahmida Suleman, Curator of Islamic Art & Culture, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

 

Saturday 31 October 2020, 1pm EDT (NB: please note the slightly later time for this session)

“New from Old: Designs Inspired by the Mamluk Minbars of Cairo”

Omniya Abdel Barr, Project Manager Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation, Cairo, Egypt

Co-hosted with Heba Mostafa, Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of the History of Art, University of Toronto

 

Saturday 21 November 2020, 11am EDT

“Embroidery from Palestine: Disciplining the Past to Craft the Future”

OmarJoseph Nasser-Khoury, anti-fashion designer, Jerusalem, Palestine

Co-hosted with Ruba Kana‘an, Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of Visual Studies, University of Toronto

 

Saturday 19 December 2020, 11am EDT

“Embroidery in the Age of Corona: Documentation and Practice from Iraq, Jordan and the Netherlands”

Fatima Abbadi, embroiderer, collector and photographer, Capelle aan den Ijssel, Netherlands

 

Saturday 30 January 2021, 11am EDT

“Two Sides of the Same Coin: Is There a Difference between Islamic Art and Craft?”

Parviz Tanavoli, artist, collector and scholar, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and Marcus Milwright, Professor of Islamic Art & Archaeology and Chair of the Department of Art History and Visual Studies, University of Victoria, BC, Canada

 

Saturday 27 February 2021, 11am EDT

“The Museum’s Role in Amplifying and Sustaining Craft and Making”

Leslee Michelsen, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design (Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art), Honolulu HI, USA

 

Saturday 27 March 2021, 11am EDT

“From Craft to Art: Egyptian Appliqué-work in Light of Local and Global Changes”

Seif El Rashidi, Director of the Barakat Trust, London, England

Co-hosted with Heba Mostafa, Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of the History of Art, University of Toronto

 

Saturday 24 April 2021, 11am EDT

​“Deconstructing the Code: Craft Collaborations in Morocco”

Sara Ouhaddou, artist, France and Morocco; Mariam Rosser-Owen, Curator, Middle East Section, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

 

Saturday May 29 2021, 11am EDT

“Design for a Nomadic World: The Future Heritage Lab”

Azra Aksamija, Director of the MIT Future Heritage Lab and Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Program in Art, Culture and Technology, MIT, Cambridge MA, USA

Co-hosted with Ulrike Al-Khamis, Interim Director and Director of Collections and Public Programs, Aga Khan Museum

 

The full program is also listed on the IAMCC webpage. Details are correct at the time of posting but may be subject to change. Please note that all sessions will be recorded and links to the recordings will be added to the IAMCC webpage in due course. For any queries about the series or to be added to the IAMCC mailing list please email me (fsuleman@rom.on.ca).

 

*The IAMCC is a new research network based in Toronto that brings together the capacities and resources of the University of Toronto, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Aga Khan Museum. Its aim is to foster innovative and interdisciplinary research on the diversity of arts and material cultures of the Islamic world. For more information visit: https://islamicstudies.artsci.utoronto.ca/research-labs/islamic-art-and-material-culture-c….

 

 

 

 

19. Ehsan Yarshater Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Yale Program in Iranian Studies at The MacMillan Center, Yale University

The Yale Program in Iranian Studies, part of the Council on Middle East Studies, accepts applications for the Ehsan Yarshater-Persian Heritage Foundation Fellowship in Iranian and Persian Studies for 2021-22.

The Post-Doctoral Associate will teach one undergraduate seminar in the Fall or Spring semester, pursue their own research, and help to organize the activities of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies (YPIS). Post-doctoral Associates are expected to work collaboratively with the Council on Middle East Studies and be in residence from August 2021 to May 2022.

We will accept applications from October 2020 and review will begin in early January 2021.

Applicants in all fields of humanities and social, political and environmental sciences who have recently received their PhDs or are in the early stages of their academic career may apply.

To apply, please send a one-page statement, Curriculum Vitae, short synopsis of a viable research project, and draft of a syllabus for a 13-week seminar. You will also need to have two letters of recommendation submitted on your behalf.

All materials should be submitted electronically through Interfolio: apply.interfolio.com/79421

Please contact Cristin Siebert by email, cristin.siebert@yale.edu, for any questions related to the application process. You may visit the Program in Iranian Studies website here: http://iranianstudies.macmillan.yale.edu/

 

1. Arab Conquests and Early Islamic Historiography: The Futuh al-Buldan of al-Baladhuri

Ryan J. Lynch

I.B. Tauris, 2020

https://www.bloomsburymedievalstudies.com/encyclopedia?docid=b-9781838604424

 

 

 2. Aga Khan University – Assistant Professor and Language Programme Coordinator

http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60458

Application Deadline: Wednesday, 28 October 2020

 

 

 

 

3. Learn Persian Through Rumi’s Masnavi online course

Armenian School of Languages and Cultures – ASPIRANTUM is inviting you to apply to the “Learn Persian through Rumi’s Masnavi” online course. The full course will last for 2 weeks, but students may choose to participate in the first week only. This online course will start on January 04, 2021 and will last till January 15, 2021.

The full syllabus of the “Learn Persian through Rumi’s Masnavi” online course is available here: https://aspirantum.com/curriculum/learn-persian-through-rumi-masnavi-syllabus

We are planning to start the online classes at 9 PM Yerevan time.

For more information and to apply please visit: https://aspirantum.com/courses/learn-persian-through-rumi-masnavi

 

 

 

 

4. AHRC Midlands4cities PhD Scholarship Opportunities

There is an opportunity to study with me on a specific project that will Uncover the history of inter-religious relations in Coventry, details here – https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Uncovering-the-History-of-Inter-religious-Relations-in-Post-war-Coventry.pdf. Further open call opportunities are also available and I am happy to take enquiries about student-led projects. See links below for further details:

 

• Coventry University is proud to be one of eight universities in the Midlands4Cities (M4C) Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP). The Midlands4Cities DTP will fund and train the next generation of highly skilled arts and humanities researchers through PhD Scholarships.

https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-opportunities/research-students/midlands4cities/

 

• AHRC Midlands4cities scholarships – https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/apply/

 

 

Dr Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor

Assistant Professor | Research Group Lead | Faith and Peaceful Relations

Series Editor | Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion

Chair (2020-2023) | Muslims in Britain Research Network

Principal Investigator | AHRC GCRF Minorities on Campus in India (2020-2022)

 

Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University

 

 

 

5. Conference Announcement: Female Visions: The Religious Visual Culture of Contemporary Female Islamic Mysticism, Oct. 16-18, 2020

Drawing on recent research regarding the visual-material turn in the study of religion, this interdisciplinary conference will focus on the often-overlooked role of women in contemporary Islamic mysticism and in the socially-engaged dimension of Sufi belief and practice. This trend in visual-material studies has been accompanied by a broadening of analytical perspectives. Attention is now increasingly paid to religious practices, rituals, and discourses in terms of their connection to certain types of artefacts. Scholars have also begun to focus on the sensory perceptions and the social effects or atmospheres evoked by visual-material engagements. The conference focusses on the sensorium in visual-material culture and on its religious, cultural, and social connections/ implications. In doing so, we hope to present a more nuanced and polyvocal understanding of the role and place of women within mystical Islam and Sufism, a tradition that is in constant dialogue with society and its political, cultural, and economic dynamics.

 

Conference organized by Christian Ströbele (Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany) & Sara Kuehn (Marie Curie Fellow at the Institut d’ethnologie méditerranéenne, européenne et comparative (IDEMEC), Aix-Marseille/CNRS, and at the Centre for Islamic Theology (ZITH), University of Tübingen) in collaboration with Erdal Toprakyaran (ZITH, University of Tübingen) & Dionigi Albera (IDEMEC, Aix-Marseille/CNRS), with the financial support of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 794958 (SufiVisual).

 

Conference open to the public. Online live participation free of charge. Registration available at: http://www.akademie-rs.de/vanm_23429

Concurrent Artwork Presentation with Video and Sound Installations:

https://www.akademie-rs.de/themen/themenuebersicht/aktuell/female-visions-art-works/

Further details are to be found on the conference website: https://www.akademie-rs.de/visions

Conference Program

https://www.akademie-rs.de/fileadmin/user_upload/download_archive/interreligioeser-dialog/2020_Mystic/Female_Visions_2020_10.pdf

 

 

 

 

6. Lecture: Elizabeth Rodini, In and Out of Istanbul: The Cosmopolitan Life of a Peripatetic Portrait
Rome
Monday, October 19, 2020
6:00pm CET (noon in New York)
AAR Zoom

 

What can we learn by following the trajectory of a single object? Elizabeth Rodini traces Gentile Bellini’s renowned but puzzling portrait of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II over land and sea and across five hundred years, revealing how a fragile fifteenth-century painting speaks to contemporary matters, from the politics of preservation to the ideologies of imagery and beyond.

Rodini is the Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome. Previous to her arrival at the Academy, she was teaching professor and founding director of the Program in Museums and Society at Johns Hopkins University. Her interests lie at the intersections of historical inquiry and contemporary practice, and center on the mobility of objects across time, space, and imagination. Recent work examines the reception of Islamic objects in Venice, museological developments in twentieth-century Paris, and the exhibition of African art in contemporary American museums.

Rodini’s talk grows out of her newly released book, Gentile Bellini’s Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II: Lives and Afterlives of an Iconic Image (London: I. B. Tauris and Bloomsbury, 2020).

This lecture, to be presented on Zoom, is free and open to the public. Please register in advance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

The start time is 6:00pm Central European Time (12:00 noon Eastern Time). The lecture is being recorded and will be edited and posted on the AAR website at a later date.

 

For registration: please click: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtcu2orTMuHtMcHqhuOPwzDJosZ5AtgCrt

 

 

 

 

7. Ferdowsi Presidential Chair in Zoroastrian Studies, UCI

For details regarding the position for either an Associate Professor or Full Professor, Ferdowsi Presidential Chair in Zoroastrian Studies, please consult  https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF06380

Open October 12th, 2020 through Friday, Dec 18, 2020 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

 

 

 

8. Muhammad and the Empires of Faith, The Making of the Prophet of Islam

Sean W. Anthony

UC Press, 2020

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520340411/muhammad-and-the-empires-of-faith

 

 

9. SUNY Stony Brook has launched a new MA degree in the History of Philosophies, East and West taught jointly between the philosophy and Asian studies departments: https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/hpew/.

In addition to the MA, which uses English translations of original philosophical texts, there is also the opportunity to participate in the Arabic philosophy reading group and read texts in the original language.

 

 

 

10. The Christian West And Islamic East Lecture Series 2020-21: Lecture #1 William Dunaway “The Epistemology of Theological Predication”

 

The Christian West And Islamic East Lecture Series 2020-21, a series of seven lectures which is part of The Christian West and Islamic East: Theology, Science, and Knowledge project, led by Jon McGinnis and Billy Dunaway of the Philosophy Department of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, funded by the John Templeton Foundation and in collaboration with the Aquinas and “the Arabs” International Working Group (AAIWG). The lectures are ~55 minutes long with an additional hour for discussion on the third Tuesday of each month from 9-11 AM US Central Time (16h-18h Central European Time to facilitate attendance by colleagues in North Africa, Europe and the Middle East).

 

Our first lecture, presented by Dr. William Dunaway of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, will take place on Tuesday, October 20th at 9AM CDT. The title of his lecture is “The Epistemology of Theological Predication”. Please see the attached PDF for an abstract. To register for this or any of our forthcoming lectures, please contact: Nicholas.a.oschman@gmail.com. A Zoom link to the lecture will be provided upon (free) registration. Also, please visit the registration site at: https://nicholasoschman.com/christian-west-and-islamic-east-lecture-series.

For more information about the series as a whole and its organization by Richard C. Taylor, Director of the AAIWG, and our scientific committee, see: http://richardctaylor.info/the-christian-west-and-islamic-east-lecture-series-2020-21/.

 

1.ONLINE: Annual Meeting of the “International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA 2020)“, Boston, MA, 30 November – 3 December and 7-10 December 2020

Program Units include: The Qur’an: Manuscripts and Textual Criticism; Linguistic, Literary, and Thematic Perspectives on the Qur`anic Corpus; The Societal Qur`an; Qur`anic Studies: Methodology and Hermeneutics; etc.

Information: https://iqsaweb.wordpress.com/call-for-papers-iqsa-annual-meeting-2020/

 

 

 

2. Call for Participation: Workshops on “Research Ethics in MENA”,  Middle East Institute at Columbia University

Individuals are invited to participate in an interdisciplinary project exploring the ethical, political and economic challenges to conducting research responsibly in the Middle East and North Africa.

If you would like to learn more, or think you have something to contribute to the project please respond to the call for participation by 9 November 2020. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/10/07/call-for-participation-workshops-of-research-ethics-in-mena

 

 

3. Post-doctoral Researcher in 15^th-century Arabic Historiography, Ghent University

The candidate should have a PhD in the field of Arabic, Islamic Studies, (Middle East) History, Arabic Literature, Arabic Linguistics, or equivalent, and a promising track particularly regarding the historiography of al-Biqāʿī or Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, as demonstrated by relevant papers, publications, and conference participations.

Deadline for applications: 16 October 2020. Information: https://en.academicpositions.be/ad/ghent-university/2020/post-doctoral-researcher-in-arabic-historiography-16247-languages-and-cultures/148825?utm_medium=email&utm_source=transactional&utm_campaign=Job+alerts

 

 

 

4. Postdoctoral Research Associate (12 Months) for Iran and the Persian Gulf Studies (19^th – 21^st Century), Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University

The goal of the program is to support outstanding scholars of Iran and the wider Persianate world at an early stage of their careers and thus to strengthen the field of Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies in the United States and abroad.

Deadline for applications: 18 December 2020.

Information: https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=17821

 

 

5. 20 Fellowships at the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem

Fellowships are 1-4 months and come with a stipend and room/board at the Albright. Fellowships are open to students and scholars in Near Eastern studies from prehistory through the Ottoman period, including the fields of archaeology, anthropology, art history, biblical studies, epigraphy, historical geography, history, language, literature, philology, religion, and related disciplines. All nationalities, and students and scholars at all levels, are eligible for at least some of the fellowships.

Deadline for application: 15 October 2020.

Information: https://mailchi.mp/aiar/apply-for-a-fellowship-at-the-albright-2324341?e=4b7f78b915

 

 

 

6. 2020 Lebanese Studies Association Book Award

Books must be non-fiction scholarly monographs based on original research published in English between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2019. Subject matter can be on any aspect of the territories, populations (including diasporic), society, and cultures of present-day Lebanon from ancient times to the present, and as addressed by the disciplines of history, anthropology, sociology, political science, literature, art, science, etc. Yet the purview of the work should be clearly that of a scholar of Lebanon.

Deadline for nominations: 1 November 2020. Information: https://lebanesestudies.org/call-for-nominations-2020-lebanese-studies-association-book-award/

 

 

 

7. 2020 Lebanese Studies Association Book Award

Books must be non-fiction scholarly monographs based on original research published in English between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2019. Subject matter can be on any aspect of the territories, populations (including diasporic), society, and cultures of present-day Lebanon from ancient times to the present, and as addressed by the disciplines of history, anthropology, sociology, political science, literature, art, science, etc. Yet the purview of the work should be clearly that of a scholar of Lebanon.

Deadline for nominations: 1 November 2020. Information: https://lebanesestudies.org/call-for-nominations-2020-lebanese-studies-association-book-award/

 

1.CFP Trans/Formations of Arabic Literary Theory at ICLS Columbia

Trans/Formations of Arabic Literary Theory conference series hosted by ICLS Columbia University and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award Committee. 

 

Preliminary Virtual Discussion Panel:
March 19, 2021, Arabic Literary Theory: Prospects and Limits [ Please Register Here ]

First in-person Session:
October, 14-17, 2021, Columbia University
Second in-person Session:
June 14-17, 2021, Columbia University Global Center, Reid Hall, Paris

[Dates subject to change due to current health situation.]

 

The primary focus of this conference is on Arabic literary theory, engaging with its development from the pre-modern era up to the present. We invite scholars to explore a plethora of thematic issues tied to the challenges of mapping, reconstructing, and studying varied sets of Arabic literary theoretical frameworks with the aim of identifying cross-temporal and trans-local conceptualizations and terms for a genealogy of Arabic literary theory. While focusing on the formation, transformation, re-organization and enduring legacy of pre-modern literary conceptualizations across the Arabic literary continuum, the conference approaches modernist literary explorations as invitations to the study of paradigmatic shifts in Arabic literary theory. The conference aspires to cement a dialogue between classical and modern epistemic systems while questioning their boundaries.

 

For more information, please email arabicliterarytheory@gmail.com .

 

1.ONLINE: 54^th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA 2020), 5-17 October 2020

 

Information, program and registration: https://mailchi.mp/280aec0a4672/mesa-2020-starts-monday-important-details?e=6c5710e83c

 

 

 

 

2. ONLINE: Seminar: “Migration of Iranians (Shirazis) to East African Coasts and its Cultural Impacts”, SOAS, University of London, 5 October 2020, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm GMT

This talk by Amirbahram Arabahmadi, University of Tehran, focuses on historical relations of Iranians and east African coasts and specifically the immigration of a group of Iranians from Shiraz to the coasts and islands of East Africa about one thousand years ago.

Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/cas/events/05oct2020-migration-of–iranians-shirazis-to-east-african-coasts-and-its-cultural-impacts.html

 

 

 

 

3. ONLINE: Debate: “Protest Potentials in Post-COVID Mena: A Third Wave of the Arab Spring?”, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) and German Development (DIE), 8 October, 3:00 – 4.30 pm, CEST

Participants: Rima Majed, Assistant Professor of Sociology, American University of Beirut; Amel Boubekeur, Visiting Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations; Irene Weipert-Fenner, Senior Researcher, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt.

Information and registration: https://archive.newsletter2go.com/?n2g=ezs426oj-ssblizts-11a9

 

 

 

 

4. ONLINE: 4^th Islamicate Digital Humanities Conference of the Islamicate Digital Humanities Network (IDHN), 18 November 2020

We are calling for contributions from both members and guests employing digital methods in their research within the Islamicate Studies and related fields in the Humanities, as well as from our colleagues in Linguistics and Computer Science. We encourage submissions from those in Graduate School or beyond.

Information and registration: www.idhn.org

 

 

 

 

5. Three Doctoral Research Fellowships, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo

Research covers a wide range of topics under the broad rubrics of religious studies, cultural history and culture, politics, and history of Asia and the Middle East. Requirements: A Master’s degree or equivalent in a discipline relevant for the project. Fluent oral and written communication skills in English. The necessary competencies and skills (such as language) for the research project.

Deadline for applications: 15 October 2020. Information: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/191127/doctoral-research-fellowships

 

 

 

6. Assistant Professor in International Studies (Focus Middle East), School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver

We invite applications from historians and anthropologists with expertise in colonialism, decolonization, and postcolonial legacies. We are particularly interested in scholars with expertise in the Middle East, South or Southeast Asia, or scholars with a global/comparative scope.

Deadline for applications: 29 October 2020. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/10/01/assistant-professor-in-international-studies

 

 

 

 

7. Defining Dialects: Accounting for Turkic Languages in the British Library Collections

 

 

 

 

8. Public Webinar

Islam and Evolution – An Opportunity for Conversation

Lecturer: Shoaib Malik, Assistant Professor of the Natural Sciences at Zayed University

Date: Tuesday, 13 October 2020

Time: 2p – 4p  (UAE) / 11a – 1p (UK)

Link: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/c761c97b94774ac2a03676f211d4a025

1.Photos of Qajar Persia in an Old Dutch Book

http://persiandutch.com/2014/05/23/dutch-book-and-rare-photos-of-persia/

 

 

 

 

2. Sociocultural Anthropology (Assistant Professor, tenure-track)

Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia

Deadline: Review of applications will begin on October 23, 2020, and continue until the position is filled. 

Job Listing: https://www.arts.ubc.ca/academic-postings/unit/sociocultural-anthropology-assistant-professor-tenure-track/

The Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in sociocultural anthropology specializing in theoretical and/or ethnographic approaches to the study of race and racialization and/or queer theory. Regional focus is open, though the department has identified a strong interest in scholars working in Asia, the Middle East and/or Oceania.

 

 

 

3. Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Quran Online (https://brill.com/view/db/eqo), edited by Johanna Pink (Universität Freiburg), is the world’s foremost digital historical-critical reference work on the Quran. We are seeking professional scholars with demonstrable expertise in a variety of disciplines for the expansion and updating of the Encyclopaedia.

 

Since the printed volumes of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Quran appeared in 2001-2006, the larger field of Quranic Studies has expanded considerably. To account for the explosion of new research related to the Quran, the Encyclopaedia of the Quran Online (EQO) will be adding new articles and updating older entries. If your field of study and expertise appears below, or you feel your research should be addressed by the EQO, please reach out to the relevent members of the editorial board.

 

For articles or updates on Quranic exegetes, exegetical works, the broader Quranic sciences as well as social and liturgical practices related to the Quran (for example, recitation) please contact Associate Editor Shuruq Naguib (Lancaster University, shuruqnaguib@lancaster.ac.uk).

 

For articles or updates on modern Quranic Studies scholars, the Quran’s early history, and individual verses/ayat or suras, please contact Associate Editor Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau (Université de Strasbourg, asboisliveau@gmail.com).

 

For articles or updates on notable Quranic manuscripts, printed editions, Quranic and other significant epigraphy, or Quranic linguistics, please contact Associate Editor Süleyman Dost (Brandeis University, dost@brandeis.edu).

 

For articles or updates on biblical, para-biblical, Jewish, Christian, or other pre-Islamic texts with noteworthy relationships to the Quran, please contact Associate Editor George Archer (Iowa State University, garcher@iastate.edu).

 

For general inquiries about the project, or to propose articles or updates not suggested above, please contact  General Editor, Johanna Pink (Universität Freiburg, johanna.pink@orient.uni-freiburg.de).

 

Authors are asked to send their CV, affiliation (if applicable), and the titles of the entry/entries they are proposing to update or create, along with a short statement clarifying why this is significant to the study of the Quran.

 

 

 

 

4. Call for papers for volume 22 (2022) of Methodos

“Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language”

 

Guest Editors Shahid Rahman and Walter Young invite submission of papers to be published in “Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language,” the forthcoming issue of Methodos, the online review of the research unit

« Savoirs, Textes, Langage » (UMR 8163 – CNRS, Université de Lille) (http://methodos.revues.org)

 

Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language

 

The domain of Islamic thought and intellectual history boasts an important body of studies relevant to the Arabic philosophy of language, as well as a growing interest in Islamic argumentation theory and practice. There remains, however, a dearth of volumes which pool research from both areas and examine them together. Filling this gap is more critical than ever; in our time, significant work is being conducted in argumentation theory, but little of it draws from, or relates to, the rich intellectual traditions of Islam (exceedingly few argumentation specialists have heard, for example, of Islamic traditions of dialectical theory [jadal, munāẓara, ādāb al-baḥth], much less benefited from the millennium of discussions and solutions they contain).

 

With this in mind, the main objective of this volume of Methodos is to provide a venue for studies of hermeneutics, linguistic analysis, and deductive reasoning (formal and informal) in the theory / practice of argumentation relevant to the Arabic philosophy of language, including contributions on: (1) theories which are geared towards argument (e.g., dialectical justifications and objections, linguistic fallacies, strategies and protocols for engagement on particular issues, etc.); (2) the dynamic of argument in shaping concepts and theories (e.g., explaining how systematic argument fashioned certain scholars’ solutions); and (3) theories “in action” (e.g., argument analyses of the historical, scholarly dialectic on a certain problem).

 

Understanding that interdisciplinarity is a quintessential feature of premodern Islamic thought, we are also particularly eager to attract contributions on Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language from a broad spectrum of premodern Islamic disciplines (philosophy, theology, law and legal theory, logic, dialectic, rhetoric, philology, grammar, linguistics, exegesis, etc.) so as to provide testimony for the dynamic “unity in diversity” of Islamic thought.

 

SUBMISSION OF PAPER PROPOSALS

 

Paper proposals (2500 characters) are to be sent electronically, in Word and PDF formats, to Leone Gazziero (leone.gazziero@univ-lille.fr) and Florence Thill (florence.thill@univ-lille.fr).

 

DEADLINE: 20 JANUARY 2021

 

Accepted languages : French, German, Italian, English.

 

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Once a proposal has been accepted, the authors will send their text in accordance with the guidelines described under « Conditions de publication et instructions aux auteurs » on the review’s website (http://methodos.revues.org/2124).

 

DEADLINE: 15 MAY 2021

 

 

 

5. Online Panel: Black and Afro-Iranians in Iranian Cultural Imaginary

Oct 6, 2020 03:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

 

Featuring panelists:
-Shadee Malaklou (Director of Berea College Women and Gender Non-Conforming Center)
-Parisa Vaziri (Asst. Prof. Complit Cornell U)
-Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda (Human Rights Lawyer, UN agencies and non-governmental organizations)
-Amir Vafa (Assistant Prof. English, Shiraz University)

Moderated by Sima Shakhsari (Associate Prof. Women’s Studies Minnesota U)

Sponsors: UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, Omar ibn Said Initiative,
Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, UNC Persian Studies Program, The American Institute of Iranian Studies

For more information, please contact Dr. Claudia Yaghoobi, Roshan Institute Associate Professor in Persian Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, Yaghoobi@email.unc.edu

 

Register at:

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XkEOn3iGRJK4ZGo6fBZ-EQ

 

 

 

6. University of Basel – 2 PhD positions in Near and Middle Eastern Studies

http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60408

 

 

 

7. The12th Annual International Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Conference (IRTP) 23-26 June 2021 in Braga, Portugal

All detailed information about the Conference can be found at our web site: www.irtp.co.uk

Please submit your abstract till 31st January 2021 and join us at the conference the next year.

 

 

 

8. CFP: Comparative literary practice in the multilingual Islamic world(s)

Pre-modern comparative literary practice in the multilingual Islamic world(s)

a conference to be hosted by the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Research Centre (OCCT)

University of Oxford, 23-24 July 2021

with a volume of proceedings to follow

from Oxford University Press

https://www.occt.ox.ac.uk/pre-modern-comparative-literary-practice-multilingual-islamic-worlds

Abstracts (max. 400 words) should be sent in a Word document, along with a short biography that contains academic affiliations and publications. Please use the IJMES transliteration system. The deadline for all submissions is November 17th, 2020.

Please send abstracts to the conference’s email: premulticomparison@gmail.com

 

1.Short Course – Islam and Constitutions.  The Law and Politics of Sharia Provisions

This is a three-day online course, running on the 7, 14 and 21 November from 13:30 – 16:30 on each occasion.

The Agha Khan University, London.

Why all the hype about Islam when drafting a constitution? Why are constitutions so central, to begin with? And what is the politics around references to Islam in them? What are, in particular, the sharia provisions, and how do they work?

This online course introduces participants to the conceptual foundations of constitutional law, the articulations of State-Islam relations in contemporary constitutions, and the various models of sharia provisions in a comparative perspective. Sharia provisions, in particular, are considered both in terms of their wording and the overall design. A close up on the politics of sharia provisions will provide a useful case study. The course also provides practical training in handling constitutional provisions on sharia in different jurisdictions through the direct involvement of participants in class activities.

For further information, see the link above.

 

 

 

 

2. Head Librarian – Library of the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic 

Description:

The Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences is seeking an experienced and motivated individual to serve as Head Librarian of its library based in Prague, Czech Republic as it undergoes the beginning phases of a planned transition to a new site. The qualified individual’s primary duties will be to oversee day-to-day operations of the library, supervise cataloguing and retro-cataloguing of the library holdings, monitor new acquisitions, and identify and manage special collections. The position is ideal for a self-motivated and self-directed individual who loves books and wishes to implement an exciting and dynamic vision for a 300,000+ volume library housed in one of Europe’s oldest institutes for Oriental Studies. The Head Librarian will supervise the library staff and report directly to the Director of the Oriental Institute.

Qualifications:

• Minimum B.A. degree, background or experience in library sciences strongly preferred
• Fluency or near-native fluency in written and spoken English
• Knowledge of library systems and cataloguing
• Ability to manage a team of librarians and external interns
• Ability to communicate clearly with co-workers, researchers, and library patrons
• Knowledge of one or more of the languages, cultures, and histories related to the Oriental Institute’s sub-fields (Middle East, South Asia, East and Southeast Asia, Central Asia) preferred

Responsibilities:

• Manage day-to-day operations of library and oversee activities of library staff
• Identify and manage special collections (including possible digitalization)
• Support Oriental Institute researchers in utilizing and accessing library materials
• Pursue grants and other sources of external funding for retro-cataloguing of the library holdings, public exhibitions, and new acquisitions
• Formulate a new vision for the library as it undergoes a phased transition

 

Salary and Benefits:

1300-1700 EUR/month depending on experience. Full health benefits, 5-weeks annual vacation, travel and research stipends, and support for professional development and further study.

To Apply:

Please send a statement of interest (no more than 2 pages), C.V., and the names of 2 references to Jakub Hruby (hruby@orient.cas.cz). Any inquiries related to the position may also be directed to Dr. Hruby. Deadline: November 8, 2020

 

About the Library:

The Oriental Institute Library (est. 1929) holds around 300,000 books, periodicals, and manuscripts related to the fields of Middle East, South Asian, Central Asian, and East Asian Studies. In addition to the general collection, the library is home to several rare collections: the 70,000 item Lu Xun library containing Chinese sources, a 3,500 item Korean library, which includes rare items from North Korea, the Tibetan Library, which houses the Tibetan Buddhist canon and other unique materials, Coptic and Arabic papyri collection, and a soon-to-be acquired collection on colonial Manchuria funded by the Japan Foundation and Czech Academy of Sciences, among others.

About the Oriental Institute:

The Oriental Institute (www.orient.cas.cz) is a public non-university research institution. The Institute currently employs approximately 30 researchers from across the Czech Republic, Europe, Asia, and the United States. Formally established in 1922, the Oriental Institute is one of the oldest institutions dedicated to the study of Oriental cultures in Central and Eastern Europe. Since 1993, it has fallen administratively under the auspices of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), an umbrella research institution similar in function to its counterparts in continental Europe, such as the CNRS in France. The CAS was established in 1992 as the Czech successor to the former Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. It is set up as a complex of 54 public research institutions. The primary mission of the CAS and its institutes is to conduct basic research in a broad spectrum of the natural, technical and social sciences and the humanities. This research, whether highly specialized or interdisciplinary in nature, aims to advance developments in scientific knowledge at the international level, while also taking into account the specific needs of both Czech society and national culture. In a country such as the Czech Republic, where university departments dealing with Oriental studies tend to be small and understaffed, the structure of non-university research bodies with permanent research positions brings numerous benefits. Among other things, scholars are enabled to pursue their specializations according to the needs of relevant fields of study, aiming correspondingly at the highest levels of research quality. The framework of the Institute allows for a flexible and open-ended approach to research initiatives in Asia-related topics, creating, in effect, an ideal environment for interdisciplinary research. The research quality is guaranteed by the Council of the Institute, composed of both internal and external members, and regular – both Czech and international – peer-review evaluations. Currently, the work of our researchers is mainly focused on the Arab world, Iran, Israel, Turkey, India, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, China, Tibet, Japan, and the ancient Near East.

 

 

 

3. Call for Book Proposals: Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa

I.B. Tauris is seeking book proposals for a new academic book series called Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa. The popular uprisings that rocked several Arab countries at the beginning of 2011, and the more recent ones in Algeria, Sudan, Lebanon and Iraq, arose, among other things, in the context of changing media practices and political communication in the region. Beyond visible actions by political elites and institutions, several of these movements were characterised by grassroots communication on social media, and many included creative practises by a diverse range of actors.
Books in this series critically engage with the complex and fluid relationship between politics, communication and culture in the Middle East and North Africa, taking into account the specificities of social and political local contexts, diverse political and media systems, media institutions, media and political actors and populations as well as differentiations along religious, sectarian, ethnic, gendered and racial lines.

Further information

 

 

 

4. Locating Afghanistan in the ‘Middle East’ with Moshtari Hilal

LSE Middle East Centre
On this episode of Instant Coffee, Marral Shamshiri-Fard talks to Moshtari Hilal about locating Afghanistan in the ‘Middle East’, as well as her own artistic practice. Moshtari Hilal is a visual artist and researcher working from Hamburg and Berlin.
Listen to the podcast

 

 

 

 

5. The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT)is pleased to announce 2021-2022 fellowship programs for students and scholars based in the U.S. and Canada: 

 

ARIT / National Endowment for the Humanities Advanced Fellowships for Research in Turkey cover all fields of the humanities, including prehistory, history, art, archaeology, literature, and linguistics as well as interdisciplinary aspects of cultural history.  The fellowships support applicants who have completed their academic training.  The terms may range from four months to a full year.  Stipend per month is $4,200.

ARIT Fellowships for Research in Turkey are offered for research in ancient, medieval, or modern times, in any field of the humanities and social sciences.  Post-doctoral and advanced doctoral fellowships (PhD candidate) may be held for various terms, from one month up to one academic year.  Stipends range from $2,500 to $15,500.

 

Applications for ARIT and ARIT NEH fellowships must be submitted to ARIT by November 1, 2020.  The fellowship committee will notify applicants in late January 2021.

 

 

 

 

6. Online Exhibition – In the School of Wisdom: Persian Bookbinding ca 1575-1890, Curated by: Matthew Elliott Gillman, Columbia University

Now online: A Digital Exhibition of treasures of the art of the book from Columbia University’s Manuscript Collection.

 

In the School of Wisdom: Persian Bookbinding ca 1575-1890.

Curated by: Matthew Elliott Gillman — Ph.D. candidate, Department of Art History & Archaeology, Columbia University

 

This digital exhibition reprises a physical one held in Columbia’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library, in the Chang Octagon, between October 2018 and March 2019. Its restaging might pose an irony, given that the show’s concept and title, drawn from a lyric poem, concerns ephemerality. Translating this experience to the web nevertheless offers an opportunity to underscore its very theme.

 

Few of Columbia’s seven hundred or so Islamic codices have bindings older than 1800, whether the text was copied a millennium or just a century earlier. The exhibition highlights examples of new and especially replacement bindings from the early modern period, supporting practices of collecting and memory.

 

You are most welcomed to browse by clicking:

https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/school_of_wisdom

 

 

 

 

7. ONLINE Webinar of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies, Fall 2020 Events, 16 October – 4 December 2020

 

16 October 2020: “Satan Conquered: The Iranian Revolution and its Demons” by Prof. Alireza Doostdar, University of Chicago

 

30 October 2020: “The Politicization of the Female Body in the Context of Sigheh Marriages”, Prof. Claudia Yaghoobi, University of North Carolina

 

13 November 2020: “Hafiz and His Contemporaries: Time, Place, and Dialogue in the Post-Mongol Persian Ghazal” by Prof. Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, University of Oxford

 

4 December 2020: “Re-discovering a Literary Treasure: The Anvar-e Sohayli Written by Vaʿez Kashefi in Fifteenth-Century Herat” by Prof. Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge

 

Information and registration: https://iranianstudies.macmillan.yale.edu/calendar/upcoming-events

 

 

 

 

8. ONLINE: “Second Annual Islamic Philosophy Conference”, American Society of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Harvard University, 5-6 December 2020

The aim of the conference is to promote the study of Islamic Philosophy, broadly conceived, in its historical and contemporary context. We welcome panel proposals as well as individual proposals. Papers will be eligible for publication in the Journal of Islamic Philosophy.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2020. Information: https://asipt.org/conferences/conference-paper/

 

 

 

 

9. Assistant Professor of Arabic, Hamilton College, New York

Ph.D in Arabic Language and Literature, Middle Eastern Studies or a closely related field is required. Applicants should have native, or near-native, fluency in Arabic and preferably have a record of excellence in teaching Arabic language, as well as experience in building a successful language program.

Deadline for applications: 21 October 2020. Information: http://apply.interfolio.com/78584

 

 

 

10. Canada Research Chair (Tier 2), History of the Modern Middle East, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

The Research Chair with a focus on the history of the modern Middle East, broadly construed both temporally and geographically, is intended for exceptional emerging scholars (i.e., candidates must have been active researchers in their field for fewer than 10 years from their degree at the time of nomination). The thematic focus is open.

Deadline for applications: 1 November 2020. Information: https://hist.air.arts.ubc.ca/canada-research-chair-tier-2-history-of-the-modern-middle-east/

 

 

 

11. Grabar Travel & Post-Doctoral Awards for Ph.D. Candidates and Post-doctoral Scholars in All Areas of the History of Islamic Art, Architecture and Archaeology

The Travel Grant (700 US-$) is open to doctoral candidates who have been invited as participants in a scholarly conference or other professional meeting for the purpose of presenting papers. The Post-doctoral Fellowship (2000 US-$) is intended to spend up to two months as a research scholar at a university, museum, research institute or similar institution, or to support additional research to aid in preparing the dissertation for publication.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 November 2020. Information: https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/opportunities/hiaa-prizes/grabar-grants-and-fellowships

 

 

 

 

12. Articles on “Speaking the Unspeakable – The Attributes of God in Islamic Thought” for Edited Volume in the Series “Horizons of Islamic Philosophy of Religion”

Topics include: doctrines of God’s attributes by various thinkers and thought schools; the ontological, epistemological and cosmological significance of the attributes; the political significance of particular attributes such as ʿadl; the influence of Jewish and Christian theologies; the actuality of the doctrine of God’s attributes for contemporary discourses.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2020. Information: https://www.uni-muenster.de/ZIT/Aktuelles/2020/callforpapers_speakingtheunspeakable___theattributesofgodinislamicthought.html

 

1.Manuscripts in Arabic Script: Introduction to Codicology

October 23-24 (11:00-3:00 pm), 2020 London

This online course (2 days) aims to introduce Arabic manuscripts from a codicological and textual point of view. The first day will provide an overview of the field of codicology and it role in the manuscript field in general and in identifying the key features of the manuscript in particular. The second session will be dedicated to writing supports, the structure of quires, ruling and page layout, bookbinding, ornamentation, tools and materials used in bookmaking, and the palaeography of book hands. Some practical examples will be given based on the lecturers’ long experiences. The second day will focus on the importance of manuscripts in research. While the first session will cover the Para-textual features in the Arabic manuscripts, the second session will demonstrate the different approaches in editing manuscripts.

 

This introductory course is intended for students, researchers and librarians who are working in the field of manuscript studies. In the two-day course, the lecturers will cover a wide range of aspects for those who are acquiring basic knowledge in this field.

 

Learning outcomes:

 

– Basic understanding of the field of manuscript studies in general.

 

– Identify the role of manuscripts in knowledge production in different areas studies in Muslim cultures.

 

Length of course: 2 days (4 lectures)

 

Download course structure.

 

Course Lecturers:

 

Dr Walid Ghali is the Head of the Aga Khan Library, London, Assistant Professor at the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and a Chartered Librarian of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). Also, he is a member of the Islamic Manuscript Association, University of Cambridge. Dr Ghali received his PhD from Cairo University, Faculty of Arts in 2012. His current research projects focus on the Islamic manuscript traditions, particularly in Arabic script, and the history of books. Dr Ghali teaches Sufism, Arabic literature and manuscript traditions. Before moving to London, Dr Ghali worked in various librarian roles at the American University in Cairo. He has also held several consultancy roles in and outside Egypt, such as the Ministry of Endowment, Qatar University and the Supreme Council for Culture in Kuwait.

 

Dr Anne Regourd is researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, France. She has published extensively in the fields of History and Philology dealing with Codicology, Paper Studies, and Papyrology. She is the editor of book, The Trade in Papers Marked with Non-Latin Characters, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 2018, and heads the free access online journal, Nouvelles Chroniques du Manuscrit au Yémen.

 

Registration:

 

Tickets: £80 for professionals | £50 for students, AKU alumni and staff. Book your ticket soon.

 

*The course will be delivered via Zoom and further details will be provided later upon registration.

 

 

 

2. Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice Vol 16, Issue 1 (2020)

Full issue on line at:

https://www.electronicpublications.org/catalogue/244

 

 

 

3. Call for Papers: British Muslims and Covid-19: Impacts, Experiences and Responses

8^th December 2020

A free MBRN online symposium

Last date for submission of abstracts: 30^th October 2020

Research on Covid-19 has highlighted its disproportionate impact on Black and Asian Minority Ethnic groups (BAME) communities (Public Health England, 2020). However, these studies only offer a limited understanding of the particularity of experiences within the umbrella category BAME. For instance, there is only limited discussion around faith in relation to Covid-19, its impacts and the socio-economic fall-outs of lockdown. This MBRN symposium will redress this gap by taking an intersectional perspective in mapping and analysing the impact of Covid-19 on British Muslim communities. By bringing together practitioners and academics, we will examine how diverse British Muslim communities have experienced the pandemic, how their lives have been impacted during and after lockdown and how they responded.

More information at:

http://www.mbrn.org.uk/call-for-papers-british-muslims-and-covid-19-impacts-experiences-and-responses/

 

 

 

 

4. Symposium: “Ottoman Ego-Documents”, Istanbul Medeniyet University, 7-9 April 2021

The symposium will be in English and Turkish. The texts belonging to pre-Tanzimat period are particularly advisedb to present. The primary sources used in the presentations can be in Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Persian or any other languages spoken/written in Ottoman territories. The main focus would be on the texts written in Ottoman Turkish.

Information: https://benanlatilari.medeniyet.edu.tr/en

 

 

 

5. 27th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), Institute for Islamic Theology, University of Osnabrück, 16-18 September 2021

It was originally planned that this international congress should take place in September 2020 in the Institute for Islamic Theology at the University of Osnabrück, chaired by Prof. Dr. Bülent Uçar. This event had to be postponed by one year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Further information will soon be available.

 

 

 

 

6. Conference on “The Visual Culture of Mosques”, King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra), Dahran, 23-25 November 2021

Architects, designers, archeologists, artists, writers, historians and curators are invited to present their original research, objects or insights about mosques and related cultural objects. Categories of submission include: Research papers; Models, objects; Posters; Audio-visual productions.

Deadline for submissions: 28 December 2020. Information: https://www.ithra.com/en/visual-culture-mosques

 

 

 

 

7. 20^th ISA World Congress of Sociology on “Resurgent Authoritarianism: Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and Economies”, Melbourne, Australia, 24-30 July 2022

Mind this date! Information: https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress

 

 

 

 

8. Fellowship of the American Druze Foundation, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University

The Fellowship is to promote research on the Druze and Arab minorities with a concentration in the political, economic, and social history of the Druze. It supports academic research in the disciplines of history, political science, sociology, economics, anthropology, and archaeology.

Deadline for applications: 1 December 2020. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/78701

 

 

 

 

9. Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University

The fellowship supports a recent Ph.D. working on the topic of U.S.-Arab relations, Arab Studies, or Islamic Studies for one academic year ($60,000 plus benefits). The post-doctoral fellow will transform their Ph.D. dissertation into a publication, teach a small seminar on a topic of their choosing in either the fall or spring semester, and deliver a lecture at CCAS about their research. We also will support the Fellow to travel to Qatar and deliver a lecture at an educational institution in Doha.

Deadline for applications: 1 December 2020. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/78670

 

 

 

10. Mekka and Medina Maps and Illustrations: from 15th to 20th Century

Mehmet Tütüncü with contributions from Atef Alshehri (Medina-Riyadh), Ahmed Ameen (Fayoum University -Egypt) and İbrahim Yılmaz (Erzurum).
30×30 cm, hardcover luxurious paper and print total 182 pages
ISBN 978-90-6921-022-3

SOTA / Research Centre for Tukish and Arabic World

 

 

 

11. Muthanna/Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy. History, Theory and Aesthetics

Esra Akın-Kıvanç

Indiana University Press, 2020

https://iupress.org/9780253049209/muthanna-mirror-writing-in-islamic-calligraphy/

 

 

1.Middle East Women’s Activism digital archive is a collection of interviews with 96 women of different generations in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, which form the basis of a monograph, entitled, Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. All interviews were conducted by Nicola Pratt, University of Warwick, in 2013-2014 as part of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship exploring the relationship between gender and geopolitics in the context of the Middle East. The research received approval from the University of Warwick Humanities and Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee and consent was given at the time of interview to make this material publicly available.

The archive will be of interest to researchers in the fields of gender studies and post-independence social history in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. The interviews consist of women’s personal narratives of their family background and education, how they became involved in public work (al-‘amal al-‘am), information about their activism and how it has changed over time and the impact of/their involvement in major national events, amongst other details. More.

Middle East Women’s Activism

 

 

 

 

2. The Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize in Islamic Art and Culture
Deadline: November 15, 2020
Every year the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA) sponsors a competition and awards the Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize for the best unpublished essay written by a junior scholar (pre-dissertation graduate student to three years after the Ph.D. degree) on any aspect of Islamic visual culture. This competition is open to HIAA members only. The Ševčenko Prize recipient receives an award of $500 and a citation, generally presented at HIAA’s annual business meeting. The Prize is named in memory of Margaret Bentley Ševčenko, the first and long-serving Managing Editor of Muqarnas, a journal devoted to the visual culture of the Islamic world and sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard and at MIT. The winning essay will be considered for publication by the MuqarnasEditorial Board.
Submissions must include the paper in both Word and PDF format, and a separate sheet with the author’s contact information (address, telephone number, and email address). Papers should not exceed 10,000 words in length (including footnotes) and can be accompanied by up to 15 low-res illustrations.

Please note that submissions cannot be in press or under review with any publisher.
A letter of recommendation for the paper should be sent separately by the author’s adviser or referee.
All materials should be submitted by email to the Ševčenko committee chair, Hala Auji (sevcenko.hiaa@gmail.com) by November 15, 2020. Files exceeding 5 Mb should be transferred by FTP.
For further details, please visit: https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/opportunities/hiaa-prizes/the-margaret-ševčenko-prize-in-islamic-art-and-culture

 

 

 

 

3. The Iran Society invites applications, through British Institute of Persian Studies, for a ONE YEAR bursary of £5000 for 2020-21 to enable a final year PhD student at a UK Higher Educational Institution (university, museum or similar) to complete and, time permitting, initiate a post-doctoral research project. The bursary may be divided into £2500 each for two finalists for the same purpose.

Applicants will need to provide:

• a curriculum vitae (CV);
• a brief summary of the project in under 100 words and a longer description in greater detail in not more than 700 words;
• a timeline plan indicating the stages of their project and the anticipated final date of submission;
• realistic details of their current funding position, budget and the costs of the study up to completion. If they will complete well within the year, they must give the financial details involved in any postdoctoral project till the final date of this award;
• names of two referees, one of whom should be their supervisor.

Publication is an absolute condition of the award, as is acknowledgement of both the Iran Society and BIPS, who will be administering it. The Iran Society and BIPS should see and approve the appropriate acknowledgement of funding in any proposed publication prior to its actual appearance.

Enquiries and applications should be sent by email to reach the BIPS Executive Officer (bips@britac.ac.uk ) no later than 11th October 2020 at 6.00 p.m. UK time. The referees should be requested to send their references directly to the Executive Officer. It is the responsibility of the applicants to ensure that the application form and references arrive by the deadline; late applications, or those without references, will not be considered.

See: https://www.bips.ac.uk/iran-society-bursary/